If you spend any time with Scratch, you will encounter a Pong project. In this chapter, we're going to remix that classic arcade game to create our own version of the game Breakout. In Breakout, the player breaks through multiple layers of bricks by hitting a bouncing ball. In this chapter, we'll lay the foundation of the game while in the next chapter we'll make the game more challenging.
In this chapter, we will:
Upload a Pong starter project that we will customize
Use cloning to create exact duplicates of the sprites that can be individually controlled
Find and calculate the sprite direction to program the ball's direction
Create and use custom variables to keep score
To help you understand the idea of the game, let's get a brief introduction to Breakout.